THE RECORD

THE RECORD

OCTOBER 27,1975

VOL. 1, No. 12

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

EDITOR Hoyt H. Purvis

FEA'S HILL SPEAKS HERE

John A. Hill, deputy administrator of the Federal Energy Administration, will speak on FEA's Future Role in Energy Regulation at 5 p.m. Monday in the Thompson Conference Center.

As deputy to Administrator Frank G. Zarb, Hill is charged with shaping and implementing the programs and policies of the FEA. He is also head of the Administration's Natural Gas Task Force.

Hill will discuss the experience of the FEA in regulating the energy industries and will review developments in the period since the international oil embargo. He will focus on the changing relationship between government and the energy industries and look to the future role of the government in the energy area.

A Texas native, Hill previously served as associate director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for natural resources, energy, and science, with broad responsibilities for the policies, budgets, legislative initiatives, and management of the FEA, the Departments of Interior and Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Federal Power Commission, Energy Research and Development Administration, the Corps of Engineers, and related smaller agencies. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Energy Resources Council.

Earlier Hill served as assistant administrator for policy, planning, and regulation of the Federal Energy Office (FEO). He was responsible for policy formation, analysis, and regulation development relating to the agency's allocation and price control programs. The FEA, which was established in May, 1974, to consolidate and reorganize energy-related functions of government, replaced the FEOI which had been created in December, 1973, by Executive Order.

Hill had also served as director of the National Energy Emergency Planning Group, on detail from OMB. That effort included the preparation of option papers on energy conservation and allocation for the Cabinet-level Action Group.

Hill's other appointments with OMB have included senior health examiner, health and community development branches, Human Resources Division and later as deputy associate director for natural resources, energy, and science.

At EPA he was senior analyst, Office of Special Projects, Office of Planning and Management, and later, director, Operations Analysis Division, Office of Solid Waste Management.

Before entering Federal service, Hill was an executive associate with Educational Associates, Inc., a Washington-based consulting firm.

Hill is a graduate of Southern Methodist University, where he received a B.A. in economics and did graduate work in social ethics.

Hill's speech is sponsored by the LBJ School and the University's Center for Energy Studies.

Constitutional Forum Scheduled Here Monday

A forum on the proposed new Texas Constitution is scheduled for Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the LBJ Auditorium.

Leading proponents and opponents of the Constitution will take part and will answer questions, posed by a panel of journalists.

Proponents of the revised Constitution will be Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby, Attorney General John Hill, and Price Daniel, Jr., of Liberty, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.

Opponents of the Constitutional revisions which will be on the November 4 ballot will be former Governor Preston Smith of Lubbock, and two Texas State Senators, Ike Harris of Dallas and Walter Mengden of Houston.

Journalists posing questions will be Robert Heard of the Associated Press Austin Bureau; Kaye Northcott, editor of The Texas Observer; Scott Tagliarino, editor of The Daily Texan; and Jon Ford, political writer for The Austin American-Statesman.

The forum is sponsored by the LBJ School and Mortar Board, national honor society for senior women.

Constitutional Changes Discussed by Doggett

State Senator Lloyd Doggett says that approval by Texas voters of the proposed new Constitution in the November 4 election "would move Texas from the horse and buggy era into the Model T era."

Speaking at a brown-bag luncheon on October 22, Doggett said the revised Constitution, if approved, would bring "substantial improvements if not great advances."

"It contains a number of progressive elements," Doggett said, "but not as progressive as I would like."

Doggett said, "You can tell a lot about what the new Constitution would do by looking at those who are opposing it."

He said that with the exception of Governor Briscoe, most of the state's major elected officials are actively supporting the new Constitution.

He expressed strong support for an automatic review of all state statutory agencies every 10 years.

In answer to a question, Doggett said that the cost of government under the new Constitution "would go up—but it is going up everywhere."

Doggett said that the special legislative sessions which have been common in recent years "have cost more than regular annual sessions (as provided for in the proposed new Constitution) would."

He said that with annual sessions there would be development of professional staffing and full-time legislators. "It would cost more but it would provide much more service."

Doggett expressed his strong interest in the University and said one of his major concerns as a Senator "is to work for the best interests of the University."

Another major interest of Doggett's is transportation and he reviewed the controversy surrounding the MoPac freeway in Austin and the role of the state and federal governments in transportation planning.

He also discussed the role of the LBJ School and suggested areas for possible research projects at the School.

Doggett was accompanied on his visit to the LBJ School by Mills Boon, his administrative assistant. Boon is a 1973 graduate of the LBJ School.

"On the Record"

. Dr. Stephen H. Spurr, professor of public affairs, delivered the first George S. Long Lectures at the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources last week. The lectureship was endowed in memory of a pioneer lumberman and conservationist in Washington. Dr. Spurr's first public lecture was in Tacoma on the topic, Timber Policies: Today and Tomorrow. His second lecture, on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, was on Biological Productivity of American Forests.

. A number of LBJ School representatives are attending the 1975 annual conference of the Texas Municipal League in Houston October 26-28. Those attending include Professor Lynn Anderson, Robert Macdonald, and Barbara Lezar of the Office of Conferences and Training; Barry Lovelace and John Hamilton of the Office of Research; and students Dan Casey, David Perry, Nan McRaven, Lelani Rose, Peter Lemonias, Joe Motter, and Sarah Cox, who are working on independent research project studies of municipal productivity and expenditure analysis for the TML. The LBJ School also has a display in the Exhibit and Consultation Area at the conference. A group from the LBJ School is also attending the 58th annual national conference of the American Institute of Planners in San Antonio this week. Students and faculty from the Policy Research Projects on housing and transportation are among those attending.

. Dr. Thomas Philpott, associate professor of history, spoke at a student-sponsored brown-bag luncheon on October 21. Philpott discussed his views on University governance and on the role of students, faculty, administration, and the Board of Regents.

. Dr. Beryl Radin, assistant professor of public affairs, has been appointed to the Committee on Research on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice of the Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences. The committee is charged with making an assessment of the research programs of the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. The committee will conduct an 18-month study and submit an evaluation report.

. An article in The New York Times of October 1 reporting on the establishment of a Graduate School of Organization and Management at Yale University, quotes William H. Donaldson, who will head the new institution, as saying that, at present, anyone who wanted to study management in both business and government would have to go to a business administration school and a public-policy school such as the Kennedy School at Harvard or the Lyndon B. Johnson School at the University of Texas at Austin.

. Recent speakers for the topical seminar on Government and the Media have included Sam Kinch, Jr., Austin correspondent and former Washington correspondent for the Dallas Morning News, and Harry Middleton, director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. Middleton was a White House aide and former Associated Press newsman. On October 27, George Christian, who served as press secretary to President Johnson, as well as Texas Governors Price Daniel and John Connally, will speak to the seminar.

MAX BELOFF SPEECH SCHEDULED THURSDAY

Professor max Beloff, the distinguished British historian and political commentator, will speak at the LBJ School on Thursday October 30 at 11 a.m. in the East Campus Lecture Hall.

Beloff will speak on America in the World and the Change of Generations—A British Observer's Comment.

Beloff has written extensively on British, American, and Soviet foreign policies. His first major book and the one that established him as a profound political writer, The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, was written while he was teaching at Manchester University after World War

He was born in London in 1913, the son of Russian-Jewish parents, and won a scholarship to Oxford where he took a first class honours degree in modern history.

In 1946 Beloff left Manchester to return to Oxford as reader in the comparative study of institutions. In 1957 he was elected to the Gladstone Professorship of Government and Public Administration at Oxford. He was instrumental in establishing the study of Soviet politics at Oxford.

In 1974, Beloff became principal of the new University College - at Buckingham, in southern England, an, enterprise independent of state aid.

He has contributed to many leading European and American publications and has written a number of books on American history and government. When his book, Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy, was published in 1948, he admitted that "for a non-American to attempt to enter the field of American historical writing betrays some degree of temerity."

The book was well received, however, and subsequent books include: The Debate on the American Revolution, The American Federal Government, and The United States and the Unity of Europe.

[news item]

The Internship Committee reminds first-year students that resumes and a list of internship preferences are due in the Office of Student Affairs by November 7. Elizabeth Hall, director of student affairs, also said that in response to a request from the Admissions Committee, a number of students and faculty have written to other colleges and universities informing them about the LBJ School. Others who are interested in doing so should contact Ms. Hall.

CONFERENCE ON WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE

Tentative Schedule

Sunday November 9

8 p.m.

Theater Party in LBJ Auditorium. Commentary by Gloria Steinem.

Monday November 10

10 a.m.

Opening session

Elizabeth Reid, assistant to the Prime Minister of Australia, After Mexico City—What?

Other speakers to include Jill Ruckelshaus, Ruth Bacon, Carol Laise

Panel: Common and Uncommon Problems of Women Around the World

2 p.m.

Representative Barbara Jordan, The American Woman in a Changing World

Panel: The Women's Movement Through the Eyes of the Media, moderated by Judith and Bill Moyers, including Peggy Simpson, Molly Ivans, Isabelle Shelton.

7:30 p.m.

Entertainment

Tuesday November 11

9:30 a.m.

U.S. Committee on Women in Power

Participants to include Hanna Gray, provost of Yale University, (presiding), Anne Armstrong, State Representative Sarah Weddington, Frances Farenthold, Sarah Hughes and others.

1:30 p.m.

Workshops

15 workshops programmed by LBJ School students

3:30 p.m.

Former Representative Martha Griffiths, Power—How To Get It and How to Use It.

WOMEN'S EVENTS PLANNED

A special brown-bag luncheon will be held in the Student Lounge on Tuesday October 28 at noon in conjunction with the proposed national women's strike the following day.

The luncheon will be devoted to "a dialogue between the male and female students, faculty, and staff members concerning the treatment of women both in the LBJ School and outside in the professional area," according to the organizers.

October 29 has been labeled Alice Doesn't Day (after the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore about a women who tries to break out of a stultifying life as a housewife and pursue a career). A national women's strike has been called by the National Organization of Women (NOW) "to demonstrate the dependence of the country on the 51 percent of the population which is female." The strike is being supported by the Austin Chapters of NOW, the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), and the Austin Women's Political Caucus. A rally is scheduled at the State Capitol at noon Wednesday.

STATUS OF WOMEN SUBJECT FOR PROJECT

Public policy on the status of women is the focus of a Policy Research Project being conducted at the LBJ School this year. The faculty-student team is reviewing public policy on the status of women—at federal, state, and local levels—with an eye to pulling together data to help future policy makers reach more intelligent decisions.

The study has particular significance for Texas because it is the only state in the Union that does not have a commission on the status of women.

Dr. Beryl Radin, LBJ School assistant professor, is coordinating the project, working with Professor Joe Feagin, a participating member of the LBJ School faculty from the Department of Sociology.

Radin says the nine-month project will help fill an information gap because "nobody has had the resources to pull together data on women."

She says decision makers frequently find themselves making determinations about women's issues "without even basic information about the problems involved or the possible effect of suggested policies."

Public policies regarding such women-related issues as day care, abortion, women in prison, employment, rape legislation, credit discrimination, legal rights, and the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment are among examples of areas of concern, Radin explains.

Students will become familiar with the "state of the art" in the field of women's issues by examining various information-gathering techniques that have been devised by legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal government, other states, and local governments.

In addition, the students will explore existing complaint-processing techniques, related to women's issues, that are used in other states.

The LBJ students are now developing background papers on a variety of topics, including:

. Federal agencies and federal legislation dealing with the status of women.

. Status-of-women policies in other states.

. Analyzing ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in Texas.

. Issues affecting minority and poor women.

. Professional women's organizations.

. Anti-ERA groups in Texas.

. Activist women's groups such as the Women's Political Caucus and the National Organization for Women.

The LBJ School policy project will also assist Austin's newly formed Commission on the Status of Women.

In addition, students in the project are participating in plans for the conference on Women in Public Life (see schedule).

In preparation for the conference, a questionnaire from the Policy Research Project has gone out to women who hold elected office in Texas—county clerks, county auditors, members of city councils and county commissions. The questionnaire, according to Radin, asks the women about the problems they faced attaining their positions and the problems of carrying out their duties. It also asks the women to list the three problems they feel are the most serious ones facing women in the U.S. today.

Radin, who is a member of the conference planning committee, says the anonymous answers should provide fodder for the forthcoming discussions as well as "yield understanding" about women's problems that can be incorporated into the Policy Research Project's final report.

BLUM, HELBURN VIEW PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS

Recent developments and expected trends in Public Employee Unionism were the subjects of a discussion by Dr. I. B. Helburn, associate professor of management, and Dr. Albert Blum, professor of public affairs, at a brown-bag luncheon on October 14.

Blum noted that public employee unions are the fastest growing segment of the labor movement. "This is really a product of the last decade-and-a-half. The three fastest growing are the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). This doesn't include the National Education Association. But all of them have expanded in this period when public workers have finally been given some rights to bargain collectively."

He pointed out that "no one is being forced to join—people joined because they felt they could benefit."

Helburn said that public employee unionism is "very limited in Texas." He said, "Texas law specifies that management is prohibited from recognizing union organizations for purposes of collective bargaining in the public sector."

Blum said, "Collective bargaining does not have to be a conflict raiser...It can be a means of resolving conflict."

In government unionism "there is a greater degree of politics intertwined with collective bargaining," Helburn said. "It is unrealistic to think we will ever reach a situation when we can completely remove that political element—even if that were totally desirable."

Both professors said the potential problems with public employee strikes are frequently overstated.

"In many respects this is a phony issue," Helburn said. "In the private sector we lose about three-tenths or four-tenths of one percent of the total available working time annually due to strikes. Clearly some strikes are unpleasant and disruptive, but we don't lose nearly as much time in the private sector as we do to other things such as industrial accidents and drug abuse. In the public sector the loss of time is about half that in the private—about one to two-tenths of one percent.

"Yes," said Helburn, "there have been some strikes in New York and San Francisco and elsewhere that can't be condoned and shouldn't have happened. But 95 percent-plus of the negotiations are settled in normal fashion. There is a tendency to overstate the potential for strikes."

Blum commented that "many public jobs do not affect society or the economy any more than jobs in the private sector."

"The right of employees to strike is a basic right," Blum said, "although it may not be desirable for certain employees, such as policemen or firemen, to do so."

Blum said, "If they do not have the right to strike, then Jerry Wurf of AFSCME and others have argued that they should be given the right of compulsory arbitration. An outside arbitrator would come in and look at the issues and decide a just settlement."

"Compulsory arbitration would be the quid pro quo for no striking by 'essential employees'," Blum said. "You can't have it both ways. You can't say to any American citizen that your future salaries can be determined only by your employer. You can say that in the Soviet Union, but not in any free society that I know of."

"Of course workers can quit, as some would suggest, but that would not really be a solution to industrial relations," Blum said.

Tom Howarth, second-year student, served as moderator for the discussion which was videotaped and shown on Austin Community Television (ACTV).

[news item]

Betty White of the University of Texas Employees Union (UTEU), an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, will meet today with Sid Richardson Hall Staff to answer any questions staff might have concerning unions, specifically UTEU. The meeting will be at noon in the Student Lounge of the LBJ School.

Any questions should be directed to Barbara Richardson of the Publications Office, 471-1662.

[news item]

Frederick Wiseman's documentary film, Welfare, will be shown on Thursday, November 6 at 1:30 p.m. in room 109.

The documentary on a welfare center in Manhattan has been called "ultimate candid camera." There is no formal narration and pictures and dialogue tell the story in the 2 hour 50 minute-film.

The film is the ninth in a series of documentaries on American institutions by the Emmy Award-winning producer and director who utilizes his own style of cinema verite.

[news item]

A total of 48 students, faculty, and staff members are participating in the LBJ School tennis tournament. Second-round matches in the double elimination tournament were scheduled to be completed by October 26.

LBJ SCHOOL CALENDAR, NOVEMBER 1975

1 UT Football, SMU at Dallas

2 [SUNDAY]

4 Election Day;

Student Brown-Bag Luncheon

5 Placement meeting 12 Noon in Student Lounge, Joe Ondrey and Andrea Beatty

6 Documentary Film: Welfare, 1: 30 p.m., Room 109

7 Novemberfest for Second-year Students and Faculty Hosted by Dean;

First-year resumes and internship preferences due

8 UT Football, Baylor at Austin

9 [SUNDAY]

10 Conference on Women in Public Life

11 Deans Meeting with Student Representatives, Noon

15 UT Football, TCU at Austin

16 [SUNDAY]

17 Faculty Meeting, Noon

18 Student Brown-Bag Luncheon

19 Seminar on Multiple Regression Analysis in Property Tax Assessment (OC&T), Thompson Center

21 LBJ School Follies, Alumni Center, 8 p.m.

25 Placement meeting, Noon in Student Lounge, Esther DeHaven

27 Thanksgiving;

UT Football, at Texas A&M

28 Holiday

30 [SUNDAY]